Willie Hastings

Willie Hastings was a Madison County deputy sheriff who, in 1984, was arrested for his affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan at the time of the 1984 Canton riots.

Biography
Willie Hastings was born in Madison County, Mississippi, and he became a deputy sheriff under Sheriff Ozzie Walls. Hastings was privately a racist, and he was a founding member of the Madison County Klavern alongside Freddie Lee Cobb in 1984. During the 1984 Canton riots, he refused to help Sheriff Walls while he was being assaulted by Klansmen, and he was later arrested for his betrayal of the police in favor of the Ku Klux Klan.